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In the Heights, the new Jon M. Chu film adapted from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical, is the movie of the summer, largely thanks to its massive musical numbers and impressive cast. One member of that cast is Corey Hawkins; best known for theater and projects like Straight Outta Compton and 24: Legacy, Hawkins shines in this film as Benny, the friendly radio dispatcher and Washington Heights homebody.
I had the chance to talk with Hawkins about his favorite parts of the film, his connection to Benny and the Heights, and the well-timed release of this vibrant summer hit.
Taryn Allen: I’m curious if you saw In the Heights as a stage musical before making the movie.
Corey Hawkins: Funnily enough, In the Heights was the first musical I ever saw on Broadway. So full circle moment.
Meant to be!
Yeah, I got to watch Chris Jackson do his thing as Benny, and I just remember being like, Whoa, this is what Broadway musicals are. And then I saw a few that . . . didn’t quite add up to In the Heights, that weren’t quite as groundbreaking I should say. But yeah, to now be a part of this is just dope. It’s special.
Was that a strong enough memory that you were pulling things from that show, or from Chris’s performance, when you did this?
I mean, I remember Chris’s performance vividly. I remember, there’s one particular, like, dance move. [laughs] I don’t know. Chris just had swag. And I wanted Benny to have some swag too. I think Benny has that. But Chris also can just sing his ass off. Chris Jackson is just incredible. I remember seeing him at the Tonys a few years back and just being like . . . kinda starstruck, you know? He’s cool now. But I was just in awe of him. And you know he got to be in this film too, which is great.
How much knowledge did you have about Washington Heights and about New York City immigrant culture before you did this film? What did you learn from the people that you worked with?
So because I went to school there, I actually lived in the Heights for a short period of time. Just off of 168th, that was my train stop. And then I moved further up town, to Inwood, and then ultimately sort of settled in Harlem. So I sort of ran the gamut from the upper west side, downtown, also in Brooklyn.
But yeah, it just . . . wasn’t even a thing, like I never felt outside of it. I never felt unwelcome, you know? Because I was walking down the street and I honestly saw people who look like me–Black and from the Latinx community–and we all were just trying to get through together. And particularly, those Sunday mornings where you wake up and it’s the “mm mm mm chicka mm mm mm,” like the window’s open and the hydrants are open . . . You know all of that was just a beautiful memory for me, living there, because those were some of my formative years, as I was shaping who I was as an artist. And then to be able to work on this movie with this incredible cast who I now call family. Just the gift, you know. They call me an honorary Latino, and I’m like, I don’t know if I’m worthy, [laughs]. But I take it and I’m grateful. There’s just a ton of gratitude.
You really get that sense from watching the movie–I feel like it captures that pretty well. I’ve never been to New York City, and I’m white, but I watch it and I’m like, “Wow, I just feel like part of this neighborhood.” It’s really cool!
You’ve never been to New York!?
No, I grew up upstate but I’ve never been!
Whoa! We gotta get you to New York, Taryn!
Yeah, I know!
Well, you been there because you watched In the Heights [laughs].
The film was obviously made before the pandemic, and before this global reckoning for Black Lives Matter, and the musical was written a while ago. But how do you feel like a release this summer is going to land, in this moment?
Everything sort of happens in its own timing. And everything happens for a reason. I’m a strong believer of that. Getting out of the way and allowing the universe to sort of do its thing. This movie was talked about being produced and made years ago, years ago. Right after it’d won Tonys on Broadway [in 2008]. And for whatever reason, it didn’t happen then. And then we finally shot it in that beautiful summer [of 2019]. And then the pandemic.
You know, we were starting to ramp up for press, and then the pandemic just leveled us. And I think we all just took a collective breath and we were wondering–I think Warner Brothers was also wondering–how to release it, whether or not we should wait, and [director] Jon [M. Chu] and [creator] Lin[-Manuel Miranda] and [screenplay and book writer] Quiara [Alegria Hudes] were all on board to just wait. You know, the Broadway show still resonates to this day, so the movie is gonna resonate a year later. And that’s a testament to the film, too, because it’s resonating now just like it would have last year, just like it will 20 years down the line, 50 years down the line, whenever.
Especially going through what we went through–we watched this country sort of cry out, and we watched people stand up and try to be seen, and again the pandemic was the great leveler. We all had to sit at home, and sit with ourselves and think about who we are, and where we are, and how we operate as a country and as people, when we finally come back together.
And now, literally, as this movie is coming out, we’re finally coming back together. And this film is all about community. So what better way than a big old, huge musical that’s like, hella fun and just a good time, but also reminds us about how important it is to look at each other and see each other and just feel each other, and understand those differences and the beauty in those differences. So I’m just thankful that it’s coming out right now. Couldn’t be a better time, right? Also to bring people back into the theaters, which is where you wanna see this movie.
Is there a specific scene or aspect of it that you’re most excited for audiences to see? What are you most proud of?
Ahh that’s hard. That’s a hard one. I don’t know. Every scene.
“Carnaval [del Barrio]” was just the craziest scene to shoot because of that energy of the New York dance community–and shout-out to our incredible choreographers, led by Chris Scott, [associate choreographers] Ebony [Williams], Emilio [Dosal], Dana [Wilson], [associate Latin choreographer] Eddie [Torres Jr.], [assistant Latin choreographer] Princess [Serrano]–they all were our rocks. Really the choreography throughout the whole film. The New York dance community, I think that’s a huge point of pride. Because they hadn’t really been seen.
Sometimes it’s just one form of dance, like this form of dance or that one. I mean, we were doing Busby Berkeley in the pool, we were doing hip-hop over here and flamenco over here and a little salsa, merengue, and all these just melded into these beautiful numbers. “96,000” showcased that.
But my favorite favorite favorite to shoot was probably “When the Sun Goes Down,” on the side of a building.
What kind of preparation did you have to do for all that dancing, and for your role in general? So many of those numbers had so many people and so much going on at once.
Yeah it was a big vision from Jon at the beginning. I remember him saying, “No harnesses. We’re gonna actually be on the side of the building.”
I’m like, “Hmm, I can’t wait to watch the doubles do that.”
He’s like, “What doubles, you doing this. You and Leslie [Grace] about to be up there doing it.”
We had rehearsed and rehearsed, and we’d learned whole combinations that never ended up in that piece. The music ended up having to change based on how Leslie and I were feeling in the moment. And again, we’d shoot it all–we would start on the fire escape. As they’re going down, I have to hold my weight as if I’m standing upright, but I’m literally parallel to the ground. But the way he shot it, in VR–he planned it in VR, so he could get his angles and stuff–you’d see VR me dancing and VR Leslie dancing. So we had to be a part of that, which was incredible. And then yeah, the building goes down, you come off of it, and you dance all the way back onto it, and then you slide down–we were sliding down as it was going back up–and the kiss. I mean it was just . . . When I think back on it, I’m like, Oh man, we were Cirque du Soleil!
But it was a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. Literal blood, sweat, and tears in the rehearsal room, because we felt the pressure to get it right and to do it right, and we felt that we owed it to not only this community, but Lin and Jon and Quiara, and just doing justice to these characters.
Yeah, my brain was like, What kind of movie magic wizardry is happening . . . It’s so cool.
It was great [laughs].
Had you worked with Leslie before? What was it like building up your chemistry for that role?
Leslie and I, funnily enough, the first time we met was on the street, right near Bernie Telsey’s–our casting director, our awesome casting director, shout-out to him, because the way he put this together was incredible. We met right outside of the building, we put our hands on the door. I kid you not, she was coming from this way, I was coming from that way. We were both walking down the street and we put our hands on the door handle at the same time and were like “. . . Hey.”
It’s always awkward before a chemistry read or a test, you know you meet people that you don’t know, but you do know, from their work. Like of course I know Leslie from her music. So we ride the elevator up together, and from then on it kind of felt like we knew. Once we went into the room and read, it was just great to lean on her.
And I watched this movie unfold through her eyes, because it was her first film. So I got to be like, reminded of the magic of what we do. Like sometimes we get so . . . It becomes like work instead of the gift that it is to go to work every day. And I was just thankful for that because she sort of brought that innocence out of me again. To be able to lean on each other was great. Especially in the studio, because I was nervous as hell.
What about this story and Benny’s character do you connect with on a personal note?
I love Benny–he’s just rooted. He’s just a good time. Like I was saying with Chris Jackson, I just remember watching and seeing everybody else wanting to sort of run away from home, and Benny’s sort of standing there like, “Guys, this is home. Where you going?” And Benny, he says it at the very beginning, he says, “When you’re home, everything’s better. And it doesn’t matter where you go, you take home with you. You can go back to Stanford, Nina, but you will still take this piece of who you are with you, when you’re in those spaces, when you feel like you have to code-switch or you feel that impostor syndrome sort of sneaking in.”
So we talked through a lot of those things as we were building the characters and just working through it, but I just love his rootedness and I love that he reminds people that home is where your greatest dreams are. That stays with me, because it is, it’s true. v
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‘Love always wins,’ ‘Chicago together,’ and ‘proud ally,’ were some of the messages written on a new community mural unveiled Thursday in Wrigleyville to spread some happiness during Pride month.
Zeye One, a Mexican American queer tattoo artist, said the mural was an ode to the city’s diversity and inspired by those who come together to celebrate their differences.
Though interrupted by rainy weather, it took the Chicago-based artist two and a half days and a half to complete the mural, working from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
“I painted nonstop, my hands were literally numb after I got home. But I don’t mind, I love what I do so much,” Zeye One said.
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State Sen. Sara Feigenholtz was first to sign the mural. “This is a really important time. June is Pride month, and we celebrate in this community every single day,” Feigenholtz said.
The mural will stay at 3524 N. Clark St. until the end of June so pedestrians can grab a colored marker and share some uplifting messages on the mural’s bottom blue section.
In early July, it will be donated to the Center on Halsted, the LGBTQ community center, and installed in the third floor reception area.
“There’s so much love to give in Chicago and it doesn’t really matter who you are, it’s that we have to come together as a community and be supportive of each other,” said Kiana Chan, a commercial strategy analyst at Cresco Labs, who wrote “One Love” on the mural.
Cresco Labs’ Good News cannabis brand commissioned the mural. Good News will donate $5 to the Center on Halsted for each message written on the mural up to $15,000.
Modesto “Tico” Valle, the Center’s CEO, said the donation will go toward the center’s Open Gym Program that serves as a community space for recreational sports and gatherings.
“They are supporting our community programs and our health and wellness around gymnasiums, sports, basketball, volleyball [and] hockey,” Valle said.
Community mural unveiled to celebrate Pride monthon June 10, 2021 at 7:55 pm Read More »
Good afternoon. Here’s the latest news you need to know in Chicago. It’s about a 5-minute read that will brief you on today’s biggest stories.
This afternoon will be sunny with a high near 80 degrees. Tonight will be mostly clear with a low around 66. Tomorrow will be sunny again with a high near 86.
A 16-year-old girl died after she was electrocuted while walking along CTA tracks in Evanston early Wednesday.
Samantha Cerrone, a sophomore at New Trier High School, was walking with another teenage girl near the Purple Line Central Street station around 2 a.m., according to Evanston Fire Department Chief Paul Polep.
Cerrone, of Winnetka, was electrocuted and taken by paramedics across the street to Evanston Hospital, where she was pronounced dead an hour later, Polep and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. The other girl was uninjured.
Autopsy results have not been released.
David Struett has the full story.
Some of Chicago’s largest museums will stay open late tomorrow night to celebrate the city reopening for the first time in nearly 15 months.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the one-night commemoration yesterday as the city readies itself for tomorrow, when the city enters what’s called Phase 5 — the lifting of capacity restrictions that had been in place since last spring.
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Under Phase 5, all sectors of the economy will reopen. With no capacity limits, festivals, weddings, conferences, sporting events and museums are making a return in full force.
Participating museums — including Shedd Aquarium, Field Museum, DuSable Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry — will extend their closing time by several hours.
Get the full schedules for tomorrow at each museum in Manny Ramos’ story.
With Chicago set to fully reopen tomorrow, how do you think the city handled the pandemic over the last 15 months?
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Yesterday, we asked you: What is the best part about your neighborhood? Tell us why. Here’s what some of you said…
“Our subdivision is filled with caring people we are proud to call neighbors. We are of all ethnicities, our own melting pot! As it should be in the USA.” — Donna Schraeder
“Brynford Park is a perfect spot. Quiet neighborhood, but still urban. Near the North Park Village Nature Center and the North Branch Bike trail. 94’s backed up? Take Lake Shore Drive downtown. Our neighbors look out for one another but aren’t nosy. We have beautiful community gardens on every corner, too.” — Elizabeth Brown
“My corner of Edgebrook — Wildwood — is surrounded by forest preserves. We get deer, raccoons, foxes and opossums visiting us, woodpeckers and hawks and chipmunks, too. We live in a forest in the city!” — Jason Betke
“Kenwood. Close Proximity to shopping, transportation, lakefront, parks, museums, hospitals.” — Norman Littlejohn
“Our neighborhood is the most ethnically diverse among all of heavily segregated Chicago’s neighborhoods — the whole world lives in West Ridge.” — Michael R. Butz
“I live next to a cemetery all my neighbors are quiet.” — Joseph Dennis Steele
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White Sox TV voice Jason Benetti developed an affinity for the Olympics as a kid. He rooted for all the small countries whose delegation amounted to the person carrying the flag at the opening ceremony.
During the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Benetti watched curling religiously while attending Syracuse. He and his friends became such fans that they went to the Utica Curling Club to learn more about the game.
And during his time calling High-A baseball, he watched with friends at a Wilmington, Delaware, sports bar as swimmer Jason Lezak rallied the American men’s 4×100-meter relay team to victory in the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. It was one of Michael Phelps’ record eight gold medals.
“Honestly, I’ve watched the call from [NBC’s] Dan Hicks and Rowdy Gaines probably about 100 times,” Benetti said. “I always loved the majesty and the joy and the possibility of the Olympics that somebody that you’ve never heard of does something that changes their lives.”
In the upcoming Summer Games in Tokyo, viewers will hear Benetti, who will announce his first Olympics as NBC’s lead voice for baseball. He’ll call the semifinals, bronze-medal and gold-medal games Aug. 4-7 from the network’s studios in Stamford, Connecticut, alongside analyst Eduardo Perez of ESPN.
Kevin Cross, the president and general manager of Sox TV home NBC Sports Chicago, was part of network discussions about Olympics coverage, and he put in a good word for Benetti. Cross called him near the end of spring training to gauge his interest in the job.
“I said, ‘Are you serious?’ ” Benetti recalled. ” ‘I got a COVID vaccine and a call to do the Olympics within 90 minutes of one another. I have no idea what’s gonna happen the rest of the day, but it’s not gonna top this.’ “
From the sound of it, Cross didn’t need to twist anyone’s arm.
“We have been familiar with Jason for some time,” said Rebecca Chatman, vice president and coordinating producer of NBC Olympics production. “His attention to detail, passion for the game and the comfortable way he weaves storytelling into his play-by-play made Jason an ideal baseball voice for us.”
The job required the Sox and ESPN, for whom Benetti calls almost everything, to sign off. Both made the process quick and easy.
“I’m eternally grateful that it happened that way because they didn’t have to do that,” Benetti said.
Sox radio voice Len Kasper will join Steve Stone on NBCSCH, and Connor McKnight will join Darrin Jackson on ESPN 1000.
Benetti always wanted to call the Olympics, but it seemed so out of reach – often literally and figuratively – that he never conceptualized he would do it. Now he can, and he’s already ahead of the game. Team USA has several former Sox.
Todd Frazier, Jon Jay and David Robertson played for the Sox while Benetti was in the booth. Benetti has remained friends with Frazier, and they’ve exchanged texts. Other prominent former major-leaguers on the team are Homer Bailey, Edwin Jackson and Matt Kemp.
Manager Mike Scioscia’s team clinched a spot in the six-team Olympic field Sunday by beating Venezuela in a qualifying event in Florida. The Americans joined Israel, Japan, Korea and Mexico. The final spot will be determined in another qualifier June 22-26 in Mexico. The Olympic tournament begins July 27.
Benetti is excited to work with Perez, his partner on ESPN baseball Statcasts. Perez, a former major-league player and coach and the son of Hall of Famer Tony Perez, also has served as an analyst on ESPN’s international MLB coverage. He and Benetti called KBO games for the network last season.
“His international understanding and his ability to connect with so many people and our ability to do shows together, I am so thrilled,” Benetti said. “He is one of my favorite people on the planet. He has contacts across the globe about baseball. He’s the perfect analyst for this.”
Benetti has seemed busier than ever lately. He has called MLB and NBA games for ESPN, and he and Kasper debuted their podcast, “Sox Degrees,” on Monday. Sox general manager Rick Hahn was the guest, and he shared a side of him that fans don’t see.
“We’re not gonna be news-breakers. We’re here for the stories,” Benetti said. “We’re here for asking questions that other people won’t ask and legitimate curiosity.”
Next up are the Olympics, which are sure to give Benetti plenty more stories to tell.
Remote patrol
A 16-year-old boy was seriously wounded in a shooting Thursday afternoon in Chicago Lawn on the Southwest Side.
A gunman came up to the teen in an alley and opened fire around 1:15 p.m. in the 6100 block of South Spaulding Avenue, Chicago police said.
The boy was shot in the groin and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was listed in serious condition, police said.
Additional details were not released.
16-year-old boy shot, seriously wounded in Chicago Lawn alleyon June 10, 2021 at 8:32 pm Read More »
No city’s baseball announcers have a greater profile than Chicago’s. White Sox TV voice Jason Benetti calls baseball, football and basketball for ESPN. Sox radio voice Len Kasper calls baseball for Fox. Cubs TV voice Jon “Boog” Sciambi calls baseball for ESPN radio and basketball for ESPN TV.
But their national work can make for strange bedfellows. Sciambi called the Sox-Angels game for the first “Sunday Night Baseball” broadcast of the season. Kasper, the former Cubs TV voice, has called three Sox games for FS1 – one with former Cub Eric Karros – forcing him to keep an impartial tone. On Monday, Benetti called the Cubs-Padres game for ESPN with Doug Glanville, another former Cub.
“It’s weird for everybody,” Benetti said. “It’s a little jarring when Boog does a Sox game and I do a Cubs game. But it’s a testament to the professionalism of everybody here.”
Benetti won’t take Sox games off to call a game on ESPN. But to stay in the network’s rotation, he’ll call a game on a night the Sox are off, such as Monday. It’s easier to do this year because local TV announcers are still broadcasting remotely. The game Monday just happened to involve the Cubs.
“I know when Joe Buck was doing Cardinals games, he did Cubs games [for Fox],” Benetti said. “I can be neutral. To me it’s another game. I know there’s a Sox fan here and there that’s like, ‘Come on, what are you doing?’ But it’s part of the gig. Sometimes you have to do a game of the rival.”
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I’m not sure there is another profession in the world that is covered more by the press, in movies, television shows, and written about the world over than the law enforcement profession. Monday morning quarterbacks, folks with agendas, and opportunistic politicians are always front and center advising and second-guessing on just how things should have been handled, some from even thousands of miles from the scene. There are 800,000 American Cops in the United States. If half of 1% is of questionable character that means 4,000 potential bad actors combined with accidents and poor judgment and low levels of fear will always take center stage and make for big headlines. Those magic words you are under arrest do not as we have observed in the last few years always convince some folks, and that’s when the proverbial shit hits the fan. As long as we get our Cops from the planet earth this will always be.
One HALF of 1%! think about that number? As Mr. Harvey says it tops even the Clergy. I won’t get into the statistics but trust me the good so far outweighs the bad, I thought I would let you hear for yourself what our world is all about from the Late Paul Harvey. Take a few minutes and listen. Somehow he seemed to capture a very strange and difficult world that we negotiate or have negotiated for many years. No television shows or clever writers, or creative people can truly portray what it’s really like on America’s streets and byways but Paul Harvey comes close.
“LOVE ALL ,TRUST A FEW,DO NO WRONG TO NONE” SHAKESPEARE–ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL”—GIVE IT A LISTEN–
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The industry has been under capacity and social distancing restrictions since March 2020. They go away Friday.
Noise. Trays full of drinks skillfully navigating crowded rooms. Live music.
Bar and restaurant owners took a few minutes Thursday to express their joy that the sounds and sights they took for granted prior to the coronavirus pandemic will be returning, beginning Friday, as the state lifts social distancing and capacity mandates.
“It’s extremely exciting,” said Jodi Agee, owner of the Jefferson Tap in the West Loop. “I’m actually near tears. It was really hard for everybody. … We’re at the end of the tunnel, the light is here.”
Len DeFranco, owner of Hawkeye’s Bar & Grill in Little Italy, was eager to once again host diners who could sit down and relax without fear.
“More customers will realize that restaurants are safe … and that there is not a germ lurking behind every glass and dinner plate to attack them. So, for those reasons I’m grateful and very thankful,” he said.
The comments came during a virtual news conference by the Chicago Restaurants Coalition to celebrate the reopening.
“We’re excited, the energy is great in this city, the weather is awesome and we’re just happy to welcome everyone back into the restaurant at 100%” said Kim DiPofi, whose family owns Pompei Restaurant in Little Italy.
Laura Fashoda, general manager of City Winery in the West Loop, said her employees were over the moon to welcome back guests to dine and listen to live music and more at its West Loop venue.
“We are ramping up our efforts to get that room full of people, live music, wine tastings, wine tours, weddings,” she said. “We have brides on a weekly basis that are calling and just ecstatic and thrilled that they have waited so long for this special moment and now they can celebrate it at City Winery,” she said.
Friday marks the first time since March of last year that bars and restaurants won’t be under social distancing and capacity rules.
“This has been a long road,” said Roger Romanelli, the coalition’s coordinator.
Sam Toia, head of the Illinois Restaurant Association, also took a minute to reflect on the long-anticipated day.
“Friday represents a giant, positive step for Chicago. June 11, 2021, will come to represent a milestone breakthrough of this crisis — and the day our industry began to rebuild,” he said in an email.
